He wore an old black turtleneck, a black scarf tied in a rush, a jacket.

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Afterward, many of the black-tied guests headed to the David Koch Theater across Lincoln Center for a reception.

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One day, after a long, exhausting chase, some of Roosevelt's friends cornered an American black bear, which they tied to a willow tree, and they called upon the President to shoot it.

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The boss of the one in Soweto (a formerly black-only township that is now part of Johannesburg), has been tied up and held at gunpoint by burglars and threatened several times.

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